Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Roger D. Henderson and Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker

Part One: Roots
1. Geneva's Artistic Legacy: From Calvin to Today
Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker
2. Calvin and the Arts: Pure Vision or Blind Spot?
Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
3. Rumors of Glory: Abraham Kuyper's Neo-Calvinist Theory of Art
Roger D. Henderson
4. Dooyeweerd's Aesthetics
Roger D. Henderson
Part Two: Art History
5. Art, Meaning, and Truth
Hans R. Rookmaaker
Looking with Historical Depth: Hugo van der Goes, Filippino Lippi and Albrecht Dürer
6. The Vocation of a Christian Art Historian: Strategic Choices in a Multicultural Context
E. John Walford
Ridentem dicere verum—Pieter Bruegel’s Peasant Wedding of Circa 1567
7. More than Can Be Seen: Tim Rollins and K.O.S.'s I See the Promised Land
James Romaine
Part Three: Aesthetics
8. The Halo of Human Imaginativity
Calvin Seerveld
The Meaning of the Crucifixion: Grünewald and Perugino
9. Rethinking Art
Nicholas Wolterstorff
The Social Protest Meaning of the Graphic Art of Käthe Kollwitz
10. Imagination, Art, and Civil Society: Re-envisioning Reformational Aesthetics
Lambert Zuidervaart
Redemptive Art Criticism
11. Art, Body, and Feeling: New Roads for Neo-Calvinist Aesthetics
Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Chris Ofili: Contemporary Art and the Return of Religion
Part Four: Theology and Art
12. The Theology of Art of Gerardus van der Leeuw and Paul Tillich
Wessel Stoker
13. The Elusive Quest for Beauty
William Edgar
14. Fifty-Plus Years of Art and Theology: 1970 to Today
Victoria Emily Jones

Bios of Authors
Figure Credits
General Index
Scripture Index

About the Author

Roger D. Henderson (PhD, Free University) studied philosophy at UC Berkeley before attending the Free University in Amsterdam, where he studied Herman Dooyeweerd's development. He has taught in both Iowa and the Netherlands and now lives in Berkeley, California.

Marleen Hengelaar-Rookmaaker is the editor-in-chief of ArtWay. She edited the Complete Works of her father, art historian Hans Rookmaaker. She has also published three books in Dutch as well as many articles about popular music, liturgy, and the visual arts in Dutch and English books and magazines.